When I was planning this month’s Freezer Cooking Day, I was trying to think of foods which would be good for warm weather. Frozen Fruit Cups kept coming to mind. I’ve had these a few times at various events, so I looked online for a recipe similar to what I remembered.
This recipe was the closest I could find. So I tweaked it some and here’s what I ended up with:
Frozen Fruit Cups
makes 48 fruit cups
2 cans (20 oz. each) diced pineapple (The recipe calls for crushed pineapple, but I used diced since that’s what I already had on hand.)
2 packages (10 oz. each) frozen strawberries, thawed (I used approximately 4 cups of chopped unsweetened frozen strawberries.)
2 cans (12 oz. each) frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
6 medium firm bananas, cubed
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl. Pour into lined muffin cups and freeze until solid then pop out of muffin tins and put into airtight freezer bags. Thaw slightly before serving.
These are rather tart. The original recipe calls for sweetened strawberries and part of me wonders if that would make the flavor better. In addition, I would recommend putting them in foil-lined cups, rather than paper cups like I did. The paper isn’t very strong and a few of the cups ripped when I popped them out of the muffin tins.
I also am thinking these aren’t extremely kid-friendly. Or, at least I wouldn’t feed them to young children unless they are outside. Otherwise, I’m envisioning sticky, dripping mess everywhere.
Does anyone have a better Frozen Fruit Cup recipe to share? If so, leave a link in the comments or email me. I’d love to consider trying it next Freezer Cooking Day!
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Tricia @ OnceaMonthMom.com just posted a frozen fruit cup recipe that looks like it would work well- you should check it out… http://onceamonthmom.com/frozen-fruit-cups/
This is a little unrelated but something we’ve been doing for frozen fruit that is really working is buying a big huge bulk can of fruit cocktail (like from costco but I can get them in my regular grocery store)… it’s around $5 but easily is 10 or more smaller cans worth of fruit. I have a bunch of little 1/2 c sized snack containers with lids (I believe I got them at the dollar store) and I divide up the can. I freeze them and take them out a few hours before a meal and the kids have their own slushy fruit cups to eat. I also freeze larger portions in 2-cup portions to have for the whole family. It’s not popsicles but it’s WAY cheaper than individual fruit cups, travels well, and even with good coupons, I still can’t get that much canned fruit for that price. Anyway, works for us.
My favorite!!
1 6 oz. frozen lemonade
1 6 oz. frozen orange juice
1 10 oz. frozen strawberries
3 bananas sliced or diced
2 1/2 c. water (or slightly less)
1 c. sugar (or slightly less)
1 16 oz. peaches – canned or frozen
Mix juice together, then slice and add fruit. Add any fruit juices, too. Freeze in paper dixie cups. Makes approx. 20-24 4 oz. servings. Thaw 45 minutes before serving, or use defrost setting in microwave.
I clear some space in the freezer and freeze the cups on a cookie sheet until frozen solid.
You’ll love them!
As far as the mess part goes there is a recipe on allrecipe.com that has no drip popsicles. It uses sugar free jello and yogurt instead of the OJ concentrate. That recipe uses bananas only but any fruit will work! I think this would help with the tartness too since thats probably from the OJ. Here’s the link below,
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/No-Drip-Ice-Pops/Detail.aspx
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